Enoch Arden (1911)

Directed by

D. W. Griffith

Genre

drama film, silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

17 min

Rated

NR

Rating

6.0 of 10 from 7 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A sailor is lost at sea and presumed dead. His wife remarries, but then he returns home. The story follows the emotional consequences of this situation.

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What happens

Enoch Arden is a two-part 1911 short silent drama film from the United States, based on the 1864 Tennyson poem of the same name. It was directed by D. W. Griffith, and starred Wilfred Lucas and Linda Arvidson. Part I was released on June 12, 1911, and Part II three days later. A print of the film survives in the film archive of the Library of Congress. Prints, positive or negative, are also held by the Museum of Modern Art, the George Eastman Museum, the National Film and Television Archive and the UCLA Film and Television Archive. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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